identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03DA8796FFB3FF950AAE3AC6FEB7666B.text	03DA8796FFB3FF950AAE3AC6FEB7666B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Ophiocordyceps highlandensis Zhu L. Yang & J. Qin 2015	<div><p>Ophiocordyceps highlandensis Zhu L. Yang &amp; J. Qin,  sp. nov. Figs. 2–4</p><p>MycoBank: MB 810173</p><p>Etymology:  highlandensis refers to habitats of the fungus.</p><p>Holotype: CHINA. Yunnan Prov.: Huize County, Jiache Township,  Jiache village, 23 July 2014. Z.L. Yang 5797 (HKAS 83207).</p><p>Stroma (Fig. 2, Fig. 3a) arising from head of host (larva of  Scarabaeidae,  Coleoptera), solitary and simple, 3.5–8 cm in height. Stipe cylindrical, 2.5–6 cm long, 1.5–2.5 mm in diam, dark-brown to blackish, fleshy, glabrous, smooth, enlarging abruptly at fertile portion. Fertile portion single, elliptical to fusiform, 5–15 mm long, 2.5–4 mm in diam, dark brown to fuliginous. Sterile apical portion 5–10 mm long, attenuate towards the apex. Perithecia (Fig. 4) crowded, nearly fully immersed, vase-form, ovoid to oblong, 230–410 × 120–200 μm, oriented at more or less right angles to the longitudinal axis of the stroma; ostioles not protruding; cortex of the fertile portion in transverse section composed of slightly thick-walled (≤ 1 μm thick) yellow-brown cells 7–15 × 5–12 μm. Asci (Fig. 3b,c) 8-spored, narrowly clavate to nearly cylindrical, 140–170 × 5–6.5 μm when mature; apex tip 2.5–4.5 μm in height, 4.5–5.5 μm in width, non-amyloid; basal septa with crosiers (Fig. 3b). Ascospores (Fig. 3d) filiform, 3-septate, rarely 4-septate, 130–150 × 1.5–2 μm, smooth, colorless and hyaline, breaking easily into four (rarely five) part-spores (20)33–55 × 1.5–2 μm. The interior of stipe composed of vertically arranged, frequently septate, slightly thick-walled (≤ 1 μm thick), filamentous hyphae 3–8 μm. Surface of stipe (cortex, Fig. 3e) a hymeniform layer of cells with brownish to brown vacuolar pigment; terminal cells mostly clavate to narrowly clavate, sometimes subfusiform with an attenuate apical appendage, 10–35 × 3–6 μm. Anamorph not observed.</p><p>Habitat and known distribution: On larvae of  Scarabaeidae ( Coleoptera) buried ca 20–40 mm below ground in forests dominated by  Pinaceae and  Fagaceae at elevation 2200–2300 m in northeastern Yunnan, China.</p><p>Additional specimens examined:   CHINA. Yunnan Prov.: Huize County, Jiache Township,  Jiache village, 27 June 2014. Z.L. Yang 5796 (HKAS 83206) ;   Huize County, Shangxiang Township,  Malong village, May 2013, Z.L. Yang 5759 (HKAS 80036)  .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DA8796FFB3FF950AAE3AC6FEB7666B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Yang, Zhu L.;Qin, Jiao;Xia, Chengfeng;Hu, Qun;Li, Qing-Qing	Yang, Zhu L., Qin, Jiao, Xia, Chengfeng, Hu, Qun, Li, Qing-Qing (2015): Ophiocordyceps highlandensis, a new entomopathogenic fungus from Yunnan, China. Phytotaxa 204 (4): 287-295, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.204.4.5, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.204.4.5
